LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN DERMATOLOGY

Duhring's description of dennatitis herpetifonnis
represents one of dennatology's finest clinical
syntheses. It united under one title a great many
grouped, pruritic, papular, vesicular, bullous, and
urticarial eruptions that had rattled around in the
literature as independent entities for years, poorly
described and saddled with a host of confusing names.
Modern immunologic investigative techniques have
confinned the accuracy this insightful synthesis.
Duhring also showed us the proper way to extract the
maximum mileage from a winner. He published 18
papers on the subject.